X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <461687A2.4090605@cygwin.com> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:47:14 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061221 Fedora/1.5.0.9-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mkpasswd -l gives wrong local user References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Rockefeller, Harry wrote: > I had a PC with full cygwin install. Then my company > replaced it with a more powerful PC and in the process > copied C:\Cygwin over to the new PC. > > When I run "mkpasswd -l" instead of giving user 'harryr' > I get another user: If you're supposing that because you're logged into this machine with "harryr" that "harryr" should show up as a local user, you're proceeding from a false supposition. "harryr" is a domain user. If you want it to appear in the '/etc/passwd' file, you need to add the '-d' flag to 'mkpasswd'. You should do the same for 'mkgroup'. Or you could add a "harryr" as a local user to the machine but that new user would not be the same as your domain user. Windows will see these two as different users completely. FWIW, the only local user I see that likely wasn't just created by some installation program is "Ryan". -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/